Re: [foxboro] windows I/A programming

I care, but a) I have yet to write a C program on I/A, and b) I only have 
one Windows station at the moment.

The Windows API seems larger than the Unix one, and it changes much more 
frequently.  I think that is what has kept me away from programming 
Windows (well, that and an inherent distaste for C++) with anything but 
"scripting" languages. 


And now Microsoft also wants you to incur the .NET overhead, learn another 
language (C#), etc. etc.  From what I read  I could use some of those 
scripting languages with .NET, but will a .NET install break I/A?  And I 
still have to make native calls to I/A libraries I would guess.


I am curious, though.  Are you now supposed to use FoxAPI/AimAPI?  I saw 
Alex's comparison of the two approaches, and there are some drawbacks to 
using [Fox|AIM] API, but do you just have to live with those drawbacks 
now? 


Corey Clingo
BASF Corp.




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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jeremy Milum <jmilum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> this makes me sad.

No one else cares? Does windows programming intimidate people? Were
the UNIX users requesting the programming classes and the Windows user
base is not? What does this say about the two groups? Inquiring minds
want to know...
 



 
 
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